POLITICAL NOTES: Eruption in Bourbon County

Just before the polls opened on
election day last November, a Republican challenger picked up a ballot
box in a Bourbon County, Ky. precinct, shook it, and heard a startling
sound. Not a vote had been cast, but paper was rustling inside the box.
It was opened. The rustle had been made by 17 fraudulent ballots.
Investigators looked farther, found that boxes in ten other precincts
had been stuffed too. Altogether, 254 phony ballots had been planted in
the boxes. All but one were marked for Harry Truman and Democratic
Senator Virgil Chapman (who carried the county 2 to...